The first encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet was an encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy the communist Honghu Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region. It was responded by the Communists' first counter-encirclement campaign at Honghu Soviet (), also called by the communists as the first counter-encirclement campaign at Honghu Revolutionary Base (), in which the local Chinese Red Army successfully defended their soviet republic in the southern Hubei and northern Hunan provinces against the Nationalist attacks from early December 1930 to the end of January 1931. See also List of battles of the Chinese Civil War National Revolutionary Army People's Liberation Army History of the People's Liberation Army Chinese Civil War References Military History Research Department, Complete History of the People's Liberation Army, Military Science Publishing House in Beijing, 2000, Campaigns of the Chinese Civil War 1930 in China 1931 in China